The House of Lamentations
On sale
26th March 2026
Price: £10.99
Bruges, 1658.
Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell’s Guard, is dead. Or so he would have people believe. Now he is just an English carpenter in Bruges – albeit one who takes a keen interest in exiled Royalists.
He is tailing four men who plan to convey a vast fortune to Charles Stuart. They are unaware that one of them is a traitor and that Seeker has been cultivating this turncoat. Now, news reaches him from England that the Royalists are sending an assassin to identify his spy and exact revenge. This would betray Seeker’s own identity – and he could expect no mercy.
Once Seeker would have been happy to die for the Republic, but now he has too much to live for. He must find this assassin before they find him.
‘MacLean guides her characters through the twists of an intriguing plot with great aplomb’ Sunday Times
‘By far the best of the new wave of historical thriller writers’ Crime Review
Damian Seeker, Captain of Oliver Cromwell’s Guard, is dead. Or so he would have people believe. Now he is just an English carpenter in Bruges – albeit one who takes a keen interest in exiled Royalists.
He is tailing four men who plan to convey a vast fortune to Charles Stuart. They are unaware that one of them is a traitor and that Seeker has been cultivating this turncoat. Now, news reaches him from England that the Royalists are sending an assassin to identify his spy and exact revenge. This would betray Seeker’s own identity – and he could expect no mercy.
Once Seeker would have been happy to die for the Republic, but now he has too much to live for. He must find this assassin before they find him.
‘MacLean guides her characters through the twists of an intriguing plot with great aplomb’ Sunday Times
‘By far the best of the new wave of historical thriller writers’ Crime Review
Reviews
You won't find many period crime novels that match The Seeker series for insight and evocation of time and place
Complex and gripping ... this high-quality, deliciously moody series continues to deliver. I long for more
Excellent at conveying the insecurities and unsettling memories that bedevil Cromwell's dying Protectorate
MacLean's light touch portrait of a hard man with a softer core is what makes these books so memorable